Tuesday, November 15, 2016

North Carolina native Charles Robinson, a
license plate collector and historian, designed the “First in Freedom”
plate, which recognizes two important events: the signing of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence on May 20, 1775, and the Halifax Resolves
on April 12, 1776. These two events are also commemorated on the North
Carolina state flag and are regarded as the first steps toward
independence from Great Britain during the early stages of the American
Revolution.

The liberal media is setting Donald Trump up to
succeed. How? By making Trump out to be such a vile, erratic,
destructive loon that unless he reenacts the Slaughter of the Innocents
he will outperform expectations.

The New York Times, CNN, the New Yorker and other
mainstream outlets have set the bar absurdly low for Trump. He enters
office with no yoke of optimism hung around his neck. By contrast, when
Barack Obama was elected, people expected miracles, which was strange
given his meager resume.

It was also damaging, as it opened the young
president to ridicule. That Nobel peace prize? Premature at best. Those
tens of thousands cheering at the Brandenburg Gates? Soon to be
disappointed.

Much of America is pessimistic about the four years
ahead. They are being told that Trump threatens their very well being,
that his presidency will endanger Muslims and gays and women, for
instance.

These charges are scary, and they are ill-founded – political
hyperbole that has left a bitter residue.

Trump has sometimes spoken
injudiciously, (and offensively), but he has never been unsupportive of
the LGBT community, and has a solid record of hiring and promoting
women, including Kellyanne Conway, the first female to successfully run a
national campaign. As for Muslims, suggesting that we limit refugees
from countries fomenting Jihad is not an assault on people living in
this country.

Those who should be nervous about Trump’s election are the people at the top of the political food chain.

A formal protest has been filed with the Bladen County Board of
Elections to challenge several hundred apparently fraudulent absentee
ballots cast for Roy Cooper and other Democrats in Bladen County.
Initial evidence laid out in the protest suggests a “massive scheme to
run an absentee ballot mill involving hundreds of ballots, perpetrated
by and through the Bladen County Improvement Association PAC,” a
political action committee funded by the N.C. Democrat Party and other
prominent statewide Democrats.

The protest, filed by Bladen County Soil and Water Conservation
District Supervisor McCrae Dowless and corroborated by a forensic
handwriting expert, notes “shocking evidence resulting from a blatant
scheme to try to impact the voting results of an entire county and
perhaps even sway statewide and federal elections,” including the
gubernatorial race.

Ever since the early hours of Wednesday November 9, skeptical minds
have been musing over what happened to Hillary and her concession
speech. She was supposed to deliver it shortly after it was apparent she
had lost on Tuesday evening. She was going to speak. No, she was not
ready. Then it was coming Wednesday morning. No, it would be put off for
a while. She supposedly was very gracious in talking to Donald Trump
later that night, but was still not ready to concede publicly until late
Wednesday morning.

At 2 a.m., a rattled John Podesta walked out on stage and told
everyone to “head home.” “It’s been a long night and it’s been a long
campaign,” he said, “But I can say, we can wait a little longer.” And he
went on about the importance of seeing that every vote got counted.
Actually it was much worse than that. He was hiding something.

Sources have told The American Spectator that on Tuesday
night, after Hillary realized she had lost, she went into a rage. Secret
Service officers told at least one source that she began yelling,
screaming obscenities, and pounding furniture. She picked up objects and
threw them at attendants and staff.

She was in an uncontrollable rage.
Her aides could not allow her to come out in public. It would take her
hours to calm down. As has been reported for years, her violent temper
got the best of her. Talk about having a temperament ill-suited for
having access to the atomic bomb. So Podesta went out and gave his
aimless speech. I wish we could report on Bill’s whereabouts but we
cannot. We shall work on that.

The Media Research Center (MRC) announces the findings of a new
post-election poll on what actual voters thought about the media’s
influence on the 2016 presidential race. The MRC/YouGov poll was
conducted on November 9 and 10.

Introduction

Over the past 5 days, the nation has experienced major protests in 12
Democratic Party controlled cities and minor protests in many others.
In each case, the protests were sponsored by organizations that openly support the overthrow of the United States, promote communism
or promote a social agenda; including The Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR,
Black Lives Matter, La Raza and MEChA.

Protesters proudly carried red
communist flags emblazoned with the Soviet hammer and sickle, as well as
Mexican flags, while they in turn burned American flags.

The logistics, transportation, signs, promotional activities and
leadership have all been provided at significant expense to these
organizations. Protests have turned violent in Oakland, Los Angeles and
Portland. Physical attacks have occurred against the supporters of the
President Elect in many other cities.

A driver who attacked a Florida sheriff's deputy
Monday morning was shot and killed by a bystander who warned him to stop
beating the officer, according to a report.

The incident began at around 9:30 a.m. when the Lee
County deputy tried to make a traffic stop on Interstate 75 in Estero.
Instead of complying, witnesses said the driver took off, reaching
speeds of more than 100 miles per hour.

The deputy chased the suspect onto an exit ramp, where a witness said the suspect got out of his car and assaulted his pursuer.

Shanta Holditch told WZVN that the
suspect pulled the deputy out of his car and "just kept beating him and
beating him ... throwing him to the ground and punching him in all
different directions."

The recent presidential campaign saw a plethora of open letters directed at
Donald Trump, at
least two of which were authored and signed by neoconservative foreign policy
“experts” denouncing him for challenging their most cherished notions.

Now it’s my turn to write an open letter, albeit coming from the opposite direction.

Dear President Trump:

Unlike what you might expect from a writer for a web site like Antiwar.com,
I’ve given you a pretty fair shake. I have to admit that, at first, I just didn’t
get it, but I’m honest enough to admit when I’m wrong. As you began to lay out
your platform, I took
notice – and, in the face of a lot of skepticism from my readers and even
from some of my colleagues, I started to cheer
you on. Not that I cheered every pronouncement – but when you started criticizing
the conduct of American foreign policy under the Bush administration, and not
just the Obama regime, I was quite impressed.

The turning point, for me, was when you got up at that South Carolina GOP presidential
debate and
said:

“I want to tell you. They lied. They said
there were weapons of mass destruction, there were none. And they knew there
were none. There were no weapons of mass destruction.”

With ex-Goldman and Soros employee Steven Mnuchin groomed to be
Trump's new Treasury Secretary, as Bloomberg reported earlier today,
there was just one big question mark remaining: who would fill the other
top post in Trump's government: the Secretary of State. The answer
arrived moments ago courtesy of AP, which reported that contrary to
earlier speculation that Rudy Giuliani would be Trump's Attorney
General, the former NY mayor is set to become the top US diplomat under
Trump.

The pick of Giulani for SecState means that Senator Jeff Sessions is
likely to be Trump's pick for DOJ. The AP notes adds that Sessions has
been meeting with Trump officials on Monday evening. Miller says Trump
"would be lucky to have him in any capacity and vice versa."

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.